Mountain News
, A smelly season for skunks, possibly because of a bumper crop of voles, one of the things that the omnivorous skunks eat. The result, says the newspaper is that many an evening of late has been marked by a "wafting, rank, and slightly sweet smell.""My dog has been sprayed two times in one day," said local resident Irene Robinson. "If you have ever been on the receiving end of this sort of attack, it is debilitating. It stopped me dead, and I had to retch. So foul - you cannot imagine."
Three wolves killed
CAREY, Idaho - Three wolves were killed by federal wildlife agents recently on a ranch near Carey, which is about 64 kilometres from Ketchum and Sun Valley. They had, wildlife biologists concluded, killed a calf.
The rancher also accused the wolves of killing his sheep, although government biologists concluded that coyotes, instead, were to blame.
But a wildlife advocate who had been tracking the wolves disputed